Rise Of The Worm Sovereign

Lin Wu was intrigued by this new information and wondered what was up with this city. He felt like he had heard about the name before, but couldn't recall any details about it.

"System, what is this city?" Lin Wu questioned.

~DING~

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ANSWER: Tieba city is an unofficial city that is not under the authority of any king or sect. It was formed by various rogue cultivators and commoner bandits. It is where a lot of organizations that deal with unorthodox and illegal business reside.

The people backing the city are mostly unknown, but the couple that are known in the open, are at the Dao Treading realm. Because of this, the city can exist and is not attacked by the orthodox sects and kingdoms.

In addition to this, the kingdoms and sects also have dealings with the people of the Tieba city, providing additional support to it in secret.

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Reading this information, Lin Wu finally recalled where he had heard about Tieba city.

"The Shadow Dagger pavilion… they are originally from the Tieba city." Lin Wu remembered the bandits that Shirong had tortured while on the way to the Ling Kingdom capital.

At that time, the system wasn't as efficient as it was now and couldn't extract all the information. Thus he had not learned about the Tieba city much, simply knowing that there was a city like that.

"So it all comes full circle…" Lin Wu muttered.

Tian Chu heard Lin Wu's muttering and couldn't help but feel intrigued.

"Master knows about the city?" She questioned.

"Hmm… you could say that." Lin Wu answered.

Both Tian Chu and Tian Han were surprised by this. They knew that Lin Wu was not someone that would appear out in the open. They had no knowledge about someone like him, and it was very evident that he would be very famous if he was in the open.

It only made them wonder more about who Lin Wu was exactly. But they didn't dare ask him that either. 

That was understanding since he was rather intimidating individual. They could somewhat guess that he was a beast, but at the same time, they doubted that since his actions and even appearance were far too different than any beast.

For them, he was simply an enigma at this point.

"Umm… do you want to know anything else, senior?" Tian Han asked, feeling unsettled.

"No… at least not for now." Lin Wu replied.

"Then…" Tian Han swallowed his saliva and felt a bit hopeful.

"Your reward, right?" Lin Wu asked.

"Y-yes… if that's fine with you, of course." Tian Han replied.

Lin Wu nodded his head and extended his tail and dropped a few things in front of him.

"THIS… how?" Tian Han was stunned.

Even Tian Chu was confused and surprised seeing the items in front of her.

"The fruits? How?" Tian Han said in confusion.

"This is what you need to fulfill the mission, right?" Lin Wu asked. "I reckon these many would be enough." 

"YES! M-more than enough! This is plenty!" Tian Han hurriedly said.

But then a second later, he gazed at Tian Chu and felt like he was missing out. 

"WHAT!? Do you want to breakthrough as well?" Tian Chu could easily guessed.

"I… err…" Tian Han didn't dare ask anymore.

"Hah," Lin Wu chuckled. "You might get that reward, too. If you continue to work for me." 

"Work for you?" Tian Han repeated.

"You fool! You should be grateful master is even offering you this! BE HIS SERVANT!" Tian Chu said passionately.

Lin Wu raised a brow at seeing this.

'Did we go a bit overboard with those restrains? Check it again for the next time system.' Lin Wu said in his mind.

Tian Han thought about it for a minute before nodding his head.

"I… I'm willing." Tian Han stated.

"Good… but not so easily. You will have to prove your worth. Tian Chu did so by showing faith, you'll have to do the same." Lin Wu said with a smile.

"I'll do my best… but how?" Tian Han asked.

"It's simple. You simply go back to the clan and do what you're supposed to; Turn in this mission." Lin Wu replied.

"What about me, master?" Tina Chu asked as well.

She had no idea that her life would be flipping around like this and didn't know how to proceed now. Her heart simply told her to follow around Lin Wu, but that was also something that didn't seem right at the same time.

Tina Chu knew the difference between herself and Lin Wu, both in terms of existence and power. It was not entirely a viable option to follow him around. While she would willingly do it, she didn't know if Lin Wu would want that.

"You will go back to the Tian clan as well." Lin Wu replied.

"I will? You don't have any other use for me?" Tian Chu asked. "I know I'm weak, but I'm still at the Nascent soul realm and can do a lot of things, master!" she pleaded.

"You will be far more useful at the clan. Both of you will return to the clan and complete the mission." Lin Wu answered.

"But what about our clansmen that died?" She asked.

"I'm sure Tian Han has that sorted out already." Lin Wu said with a smirk. "Don't you? Since you were ready to do this?" 

"Y-yes senior!" he hurriedly replied.

"Then I'm thinking you know what to do now?" Lin Wu asked.

"Yes! I'll modify the plan to include Tian Chu in it." Tian Han replied.

"The story will be: We went to do the mission and gather the Fragrant Parrot Bamboo Flowers and encountered an unseen beast. We managed to fight it, but it killed our comparison.

We escaped and stumbled across a spirit fruit fortunately that allowed Tian Chu to breakthrough to the Nascent soul realm." He explained.

Lin Wu nodded in approval after hearing his made up story.

"That's good enough. I'm sure you can handle any problem that comes in addition to this at the clan." Lin Wu said teasingly.

"O-of course!" Tian Han said, trying to be confident.